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In one poem, this author wrote how “The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails” before describing how “The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me”. In that poem, this author sees “Twenty-eight young men” (15[1])who are “all so friendly”, “ bathe by the shore”. This author wrote that “The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them” after stating that (*) “I sing the body electric”. In one poem, this author sounds his “barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” after asserting that he “contains multitudes”. For 10 points, name this author who “celebrated” himself in the poem “Song of Myself”, found in his collection Leaves of Grass. ■END■

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